1,500 Moroccan soldiers to join Saudi forces in war on Yemen: Report

Some 1,500 Moroccan soldiers will be dispatched to war-torn Yemen to participate in the Saudi aggression against the impoverished Arab country, a report says.

According to a Saturday report by Morocco’s as-Sabah newspaper, the troopers will assist Saudi soldiers in ground operations against Yemen.

Saudi Arabia began its military aggression against Yemen in late March, without a UN mandate, in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.

In October, about 6,000 Sudanese forces entered Yemen’s southern port city of Aden to join Saudi soldiers. Emirati, Bahraini and Qatari soldiers are also participating in the Saudi operations.

Reports also say nearly 800 Colombian troops have been engaged in the Saudi attacks on Yemen.

A well-known Saudi online activist says some 2,000 Saudi nationals have lost their lives and 4,850 others sustained injuries during nine months of Riyadh’s military campaign against Yemen.

The whistleblower, known on Twitter as @mujtahidd, once again took to the social networking service and released the figures as part of a report detailing damage suffered by Saudi Arabia in its military operations against Yemen.

Saudi Arabia has spent more than 200 billion riyals (about USD 53 billion) in its ferocious campaign over the past nine months, according to @mujtahidd, who added that the kingdom spends 750 million riyals (almost USD 200 million) a day on the war against Yemen.

Some reports say Riyadh has vowed to pay a weekly salary of USD 1,000 to each Colombian soldier helping the regime in the war on Yemen, which has killed more than 7,500 people and left over 14,000 others wounded since March 26.